Today's Agent Skill: Business Decision-Making Framework Builder
What It Does
Every week, small business owners face decisions that feel impossible to make quickly — whether to hire, which vendor to choose, whether to raise prices, how to respond to a competitor. Without a structured approach, these decisions stall for days or get made inconsistently based on gut feel. An AI skill that builds a decision framework for any specific business question helps you move faster and make choices you can explain and stand behind.
How It Works
The agent takes a description of the business decision you're wrestling with, identifies the key factors and tradeoffs relevant to that type of decision, and outputs a structured framework: evaluation criteria with default weights, the key questions you must answer before deciding, a scoring matrix you can fill in, and a summary of common mistakes business owners make in this type of decision. It converts a fuzzy, stressful choice into a clear, 15-minute process.
How to Deploy It
Trigger this skill in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, or Windsurf by describing the decision: "build a decision framework for whether I should hire a full-time employee or keep using contractors." Works for any business decision — vendor selection, pricing changes, service launches, technology upgrades. Save the output framework and reuse it for similar decisions in the future. Windsurf and Cursor users can invoke it through the agent panel.
SKILL.md — Ready to Deploy
## Description
Converts a described business decision into a structured evaluation framework with weighted criteria, key questions to answer first, a blank scoring matrix, and a list of common decision mistakes to avoid.
## Trigger
Invoke when the user describes a business decision they're struggling with and says "help me decide," "build a decision framework," "should I [X]," or asks how to evaluate competing options.
## Input
- Description of the decision: what the user is choosing between (1–3 sentences)
- Current situation: what they have now, what they're considering changing
- Key constraints: budget, timeline, team capacity
- What matters most: cost, time savings, customer experience, team morale, revenue growth, risk reduction
## Steps
1. Identify the 4–6 most important evaluation criteria for this specific type of decision based on the business context provided.
2. Assign suggested default weights to each criterion as percentages totaling 100%; note that the user should adjust these weights to match their actual priorities.
3. Generate 3–5 key questions the user must answer factually before making the decision — these are information gaps that, once resolved, will make Copy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.